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'<CtM BY JAYNBS, SHELOB, SMITH & STECK.
WAI,Pf ALLA, SOUTH OABOliiy/A? SEPTEMBBB 14, 180?.
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Many Things Seen 1
Recent T
STORY OF THE C
Yellowstone National "Park,
Visited-Point I
EDITORS CoURlBtt : Having nt ono j
time had tho honor of being ono of |
your staff of local correspondents, I
have not boon nblo entirely to break
off tho habit of Hcribbling for tho
press ; anti while your readers may
not remember "Josh Hayseed" of
former years, I am glad to renew tho
noquaintanco by giving a brief sketch
of a trip which I had tho pleasure of
taking recently, provided you can find
spaco in your columns for that pur
pose
Tho route followed was from At
lanta to Cinoinnatti over the South
ern and Queen and Crescent rail
ways, to Chicago over tho Big Four,
to Denver over tho Burlington, to
Salt Lake City over the Don vor and
Rio Orando and the Bio Grande an 1
Western, to Butte, Montana, via tho
Oregon Short Lino ; thonco to Yel
low Stone National Park, and after
ward on to St. Paul, Minnesota, by
tho Northern Pacific.; then down to
Chioago over tho Burlington, and
back to Atlanta over tho same route
taken outward.
Leaving Atlanta nt night, wo
av:oko among tho hills of Northorn
Kentucky, and crossing soon into
Ohio at Cincinnati, Dixie was left
hohind and wc were in tho groat
middle Wost, the land of corn and
cattle. Here, where onco roamed
tho red man over tho vast prairies in
pursuit of tho buffalo, aro tho farms
which make tho Mississippi valley
the grancry of tho world to-day.
Fields of corn,' of wheat, oats, rye
and barley, pastures containing largo
herds of cattle on cvory hand, vaBt
areas of land, now as lovol as a floor,
now gently undulating and occasion
ally moro uneven and rolling. Big,
commodious barns overshadow what
aro really adequate and well-built
homes. Tho wiro fenoo is every
where, because of timber thcro in
none. A clump of trees usually
hovers around tho houses, planted,
of course, for shade and protection
from wind. The lightning rod h
apparently in high favor along with
tho wire fence, but the pronounced
feature of the landscape all over thc
West is the windmill. It is ever
present and universal-not, to bc
sure the big four-armed machines
that havo helped to make Holland
famous, but the business-like steel
concerns, which moves liko othoi
busy Americans. Liko the fonce,
thoy aro made necessary by circum
stances, for streams aro not numer
ous and wells must be depended up
on for the water supply.
Tradition hath said that Mr. Gai
ter made so many oa,s that ho hat
to rent an adjourning lot on whicl
to shock the surplus sheaves. Mr
Carter beat tho west somewhat 01
oats, hut hero tho shocks stood won
dorfully thick on thc ground. Har
vesting had just about been fi nisbet
and threshing was in progress
Great stacks of straw stood about ii
tho fields, and fat cnttlo browse*
upon tho Htubblo lands from whicl
thc grain had been removed.
The train halted long enough a
Indianapolis for one to tako a brisl
walk and get a slight glimpse of th a
city, with ?ts handsome buildings
clean asphalt streets and business
like air. A good view of Indiana'
capitol building was had. It is ;
sister building to Georgia's seat o
government, both being built 0
Indiana limestone. The gonom
design is also somewhat similar, bu
I believe that an unbiased opinio
would be favorable to our capitol o
external appearance.
A SOJOURN IN THU WINDY CITY.
Chiongo is collossal. She is gren
from every utilitarian point of vio^
-great in aroa, population, wealtl
business. She is a huge hive of lim
tie, and tho hub around which coi
tors tho vast and varied intorcsl
of tho west. Sho renchos out an
draws to herself cattle froi
Colorado, wheat from Dakota an
oats from Texas. Sho is the contri
market for tho whole west an
southwest, and producer and coi
sumer alike pay her tribute.
Aero? and acres of ground aro co'
ercd with maasiv.c buildings fro:
twelve to twonty-qno stories high*
oflico buildings, (Hores, fnctoric
hotels and the liko\ Streets seo
narrow, although of tllb usual widt
under tho overshadowing height
ART OF JTH
by James D. Massey ? ?
rip He Made to the Fi
?RAND AND P!CTURI
Pike's Peak and Other Places
.ookout and Great Falls-A Sojo
thp^ sky-scrapers. Night, instoad of!
bringing quiot to the oity, fills its
streets with greater swarms of peoplo
than before. Everybody is in a
hurry. Peoplo on pleasure bout aro
out for a good time. Thoy aro on
tho ears, in carriages, the sidewalks
aro orowdod and tho restaurants aro
filled, lt is pleasant to study the
people ns thoy pass. Hore comes the
sport with chcoked trousers, high silk
hat and blazing diamonds. Yonder
goes tho business man, tired with tho
toil of tho day, hurrying homoward.
The dapper dudo amblos airily along,
absorbed in contemplation of his own
importance. Tho laboring man in
blue overalls leaves his work and
catches tho first car for homo. Hun
dreds of girls omployod in stores and
factories, offices and restaurants,
swell tho throng. Tho street ven
ders call out their wares, all offering
tho greatest bargains on earth. Yon
der thc street is almost blockaded ;
it is a street preacher expounding his
faith, or a crazy roformor preaching
bia politics. If neither of these, it is
tho brass-lunged benefactor who will
sell you tho great lightning grease
eradicator nt 25 cents a package, or
the good Samaritan who will onro
anything from corns to consumption
with his wonderful remedios.
In thc shopping districts tho show
windows are gorgeous. Everything
that could tempt tho purse strings of
tho public to relax is on display, set
off by draperies and olectrio lights of
all colors.
IN TIIH UNION STOCK YARDS.
Of courso, in the abovo respeots,
Chicago ia liko other groat cities.
Those features, with variations, aro
common to all. Each metropolis has
its long suit, howovor-its pride par
excellence. London has her Picca
dilly, Paris her boulevards and Chi
cago has her stockyards. They aro
tremendous, Thoy constitute a city
in thoniBelvoH. Aero after aero of
land is covered and cut up by white
washed fences into stalls and pena
which are filled with sheep, hogs and
cattle. Droves of thom aro passing
to an fro. Stock men aro galloping
about on horseback, and k<*sg train
loads of cattlo just arriving from
every quarter of tho west move
slowly along.
Big packing houses loom up
in all directions. Our timo being
limited Swift's was tho only ono
visited. First como tho gonoral
offices ; ono ontiro lloor is thrown J
into n singlo room and it is jammed
with desks. A telegraph office and a
freight office aro included. Hun
dreds of clerks and officials ai-o busily
engaged with tho immense piles of
booka and papers inoident to tho
transaction of a business of such
magnitude.
Noxt the sightseer is taken to tho
ground floor, whom the slaughtering
ia dono. Long rows of stalls open
into a largo room. Abovo aro plat
forms upon which a man with a
long-handled hammer atando. Ono
blow and the atcor drops ; tho door
opens and from tho sloping floor of
tho atnll the carcass rolls. In a
twinkling a derrick has swung over
it and tho "beef" is suspended by thc
heels. A blood covored man with
bare arma plunges a long, crooked
knife into tho throat and a torront
of blood spatters upon the floor.
Aa it drains away tho first is caught
for pudding, etc., tho othor for but
tons, fertilizer, cte. Without delay
the derrick swings off to another
spot. Two men in a fow seconds re
move tho bide from tho carcass, and
again it moves to those who out it
?100 KEV*. Ul) $100.
Tho readers of this paper will bo
pleased to learn that there ia at loast ono
dreaded ciiacaso that aoienco has boon
ablo to care hi all its stages, and that is
catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo ia tho only
positive onro known to tho medical fra
ternity. Catarrh hoing a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh ls ('uro takon inter
nally, acting directly upon tho blood and
mucuouR surfaces of tho system, thoroby
destroying tho foundation of tho disoaso,
and Riving tho patient atrongth by build
up tho constitution mid assisting naturo
in doing Ita Work. Tho proprietors havo
liavo so much faith in its curativo pow
ors, that thoy offor ono h mid red dollars
for any caao it fails? to euro. Sond for
list of testimonials.
Address, F. J, CliJSNRY A CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by brujffflftt, 76e.
Hall's Family Fills aro the best.
E ROCKIES.
m Oconee Boy, on a
ir West.
ESQUE SCENERY.
of Wondrous Beauty Wore
urn in Chicago.
up. From thoro tho various por
tiona aro distributed by maohinory
to tho sovoral dopartmonts for pack
ing. A man nover missoB a joint,
and a hoof is cut up with ns much
colority and dexterity as a Georgia
darkey dissects t; watermelon. Only
a very fow minutes nlapso from tho
time tho first blow is struck till tho
erstwhile bovine is transformed into
steaks, oannod goods and oxtraots.
It would bo tedious to follow in do
tail tho various processes. Every
thing is'dono by maohinory, even tho
nailing up of boxCs, and all goos on
with tho preoision and regularity of
olookwork. Tho tin cans aro mndo
upon tho spot. One machino cuts
tho tin into proper shnpos and sizes,
another curves it, anothor solders it,
and still anothor fastens in the bot
tom. After hoing lilied anothor ma
chine soldors on tho top, and it is
thou labeled. Many girls and small
boys aro employed aB operatives in
tho canning and packing dopart
! monts.
Figures genorally aro uninterest
ing, but it may not bo amiss to givo
a fow to givo some idea of tho enor
mous volume of business done. Tho
Swift Company employs in Chicago
alono 0,085 people. In all of ita
paoking establishments located in
Karsas City, Omaha, St. Louis, otc,
12,833 aro employed. During 1898
tho company purchased 1,437,844
cattle, 2,658,951 sheep and 3,928,059
hogs. Tho returns from sales, in
cluding lard, wool, oil, glue, buttor
ine, tallow, hides, fertilizer, otc,
amounted to over $150,000,000, and
tho shipments aggregated .107,084
carloads. Thia will givo some faint
ooncoption of Chicago's packing
business, if you boar in mind that
Swift's is but one of tho many in
tho oity.
CHICAGO'S 1IKAUTY SPOTS.
But it is not alono in buildings
and business that Chicago is great
Its parks and residences and streets
aro beautiful.
First of tho parka comes Lincoln,
which lies along the lakeshoro on the
North Bide. It does not appear to
bo as large as Central Park in New
York, but for finish and beauty it
would bo hard to oxcel. The land
senpo gardener's art has been ex
hausted in assisting nature. Long
torracos, graceful slopes and utile
valloya, all covorod in luxuriant blue
grass neatly trimmed. Long rows
and soattorcd clumps of well groomed
trocs afford ampio shade and numer
ous swings furnish amusement for
tho little ones. Lagoons and lakes
aro Boon hero and there. Graooful
swans glide lazily about on tho
smooth water and on others boating
is onjoyed.
Thoro aro a number of good sta
tues in Lincoln park, of which tho
best is perhaps that of the President
for whom tho park was named.
Benjamin Franklin, Hans Christian
Andersen and General Grant arc also
represented.
A long lagoon lies on the oastcrn
sido, parallel with tho lako and a
short distance from it. Between
thom is a fine driveway, from which
splondid viowfl of both the park and
tho lake aro had. A bridge risos in
a high, graceful curvo ovor this la
goon, and affords a widor rango of
vision. A very good zoological gar
den is near tho Laflin memorial.
Grottoes and other attractions usual
ly found in publio parks are there.
Tho Laflin memorial is a nico brick
building filled with fossil remains,
minerals, birds, deer, etc., etc., and is
a very good museum of natural his
tory.
Lording out from Lincoln Park
southward is Lako Shore drive, a fino
boulevard, having on ono sido the
lako and on tho other a row of hand
BOmo houses wherein resido tho mil
lionaires of tho North Side Of
oourso thoro are other fino residence
Streets on tho North Side, but this is
tho finest, Tho cnstlo-liko homo of
Potter Palmor ia tho most striking.
In tho moro western section of tho
oity Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas
parks aro looatcd.
Jackson Park, on tho extreme
southeastern cornor of thc oity, which
was thu World's Fair site, has not
boon thoroughly put in shape, but in
the oourso of time will bo ns fine a
ploasure ground as could bo wished.
Tho groat white city whioh astonish od
tho world six years ago has vanished.
Tho famous court of honor is no
moro. Tho midway plnisanco is a
memory. Tho lagoons aro still there
and tho models of Columbus' ships
stund rotting and deserted. Thoy aro
sorry looking little craft. A few
of tho foreign government buildings
remain.
KKMINDEK OF THU PAIR.
Tho only worthy romiuder of tho
great fair is tho old art building, in
whioh is installed tho Fiold Colum
bian musoum. Marshall Field, tho
Chicago morohant, oxpended a mil
lion dollars in purohnsing articles of
interest in value from among tho
countless exhibits at tho fajr, and
donated thom to tho city. It is real
ly ns groat ovon in HV/.O as tho ordi
nary exposition, and hoing a choice
collection from all over tho world,
makes it exceedingly valuablo and
interesting. Weoks might bo profit
ably spent in studying it. Tho ox
hibitB cover a wide range, and no at
tempt cnn ho m ad o ovon to summa
rize thom.
POINT LOOKOUT Ar>
Here in Yellowstone Park are Two
, Western L
Driving along tho old Midway
plaisance, once the homo of tho
beauty show, tho streets of Cairo,
and hundreds of other money catch
ing expedients, but which is now
a pretty strip of park itself, wo come
to Washington Park. While not as
largo ?B Lincoln Park, it is quito as
pretty. From among its many at
tractions spaco only sorvos to men
tion tho finest lily pond I havo over
soon. Tt would take an enthusiastic
professional Umist of literary distinc
tion to fittingly portray its beauty, so
that I shall have to bo contont with
strongly advising any one when in
Chicago not to fail of seeing it. To
my mind it is distinctly ono of the
sights of tho city. Protty goldfish
in great numbers swim around con
tentedly among tho lilies, and dart
hole and thoro in lights and shad
dows. Adjacont to tho pond aro
large beds of gorgeous flowors of
numerous varieties, and near to them
is a large conservatory where IOSH
hardy plants are kept.
Northward from Washington Park
and vicinity extond Michigan, Drexel,
Prairie and other avenues, where
abide the elito of tho South Side In
fact, whilo on tho North Side .\ro
many fino strcots, the South Sido is
conaidored tho most, select residence
section of Ohioago. Tho houses aro
vory largo and oxponsivc, ns well ns
beautiful, and tho streets aro kept in
admirable condition. 1
Lake Michigan is a boautiful'sheot
of water, and Chicago has duly ap
preciated it. Instead of locating tho
lowest and filthiest stroots along tho
water front, ns is ofton tho caso,
miles of the most bountiful residences
and imposing buildings in tho city
aro ranged along tho shore Lake
Par!; is a protty little strip of groon
which stretches from tho Twelfth
street depot to thc public library,
noav Washington stroot. By it
strotohes Michigan avenue, which is
tho oyoliets' paradise. With tho blue
waters of tho lako dashing against
tho sea wail on tho one side, tho
m a <> n t? i ec nt. buildings on tho other
and the smooth asphalt beneath, all
that could be desired in a wheelman's
boulevard is combinod.
But I cannot say moro of Chicago
in detail. It is tho magio city of
Amorica, having risen out of tho
ashos of 1871 to a city of ovor two
niiIlion people-ns many as there aro
in tho State of Georgia. It is groat
in all that constitutes a metropolis of
tho first order, and is full of futuro
promise?
CHICAGO TO DBNVBK.
From Chicago to Denver wo wen];
on tho special train plaood at tho
disposal of tho commissioners by Gen
eral Manager Brown, of tho Burling
ton system, through Hon. Cicero J.
Lindloy, chairman of tho convention.
It was a magnificent train of Pull
man cars and made a fast run, at
taining a speed of as much ?is seventy
two miles per hour.
Al! and moro than was said about
JD ORR AT FALLS.
Bcntitiful Glimpses of thc Rugged
andscape.
tho West boforo roaching Chicago
applies to the country between that
oity and Burlington, Ia. American
agriculture here reaches its nome,
and it is a revelation to ga/o upon
those wondrously fertile holds. Rows
of corn aro closo togotbor, tho hills
arc still closer, and livo to ?oven
stalks to tho hill. It scorned actu
ally to have boon sown in drills. In
?orno places ns far ns tho oyo could
reach there was a vast sea of corn.
At other places it was broken by
fields of small grain, which had
yielded oqually ns abundant harvests
ns thc cornfields promised. Long
rows of largo cribs could bo soon at
almost every house house lilied with
corn of last year's crop. No wonder
(IRANI) CANON OP Tl
Thc Grandeur of Switzerland ls Sui
est (Iorgo ol
corn can bo produced there at 251
cents per bushol and less.
We crossed tho Mississippi into
Iowa at Burlington about 0 o'clock
in tho ovoning, so that tho greater
part of tho latter State wns passed
through tho night. Daylight found
us over tho MisHouri rivor, well
Htavlod into Nobrasko. Wo barely
missed sooing Lincoln, tho home of
W. J. Brynn. |
To describo tho route through
Nebraska would bo but to repeat re
marks oonooruing tho Western coun
try previously passed through, ex
cept that thc lands and orops did
not appear to bo quito so good, and
trocs somewhat moro raro. In faot
at titnos not a troo could bo soon in
any dirostion.
Aftor MoCook was passed crops
bogan to dwindle, and instead graz
ing landa -appeared. Before tho
Colorado lino was roaohed tho view
presented was that of a vast, treo
loss plain, covered with short grass,
broken boro and thoro by high, bar
ron iidgos and divided into largo
tracts by wiro fonce. Horda of oat
tlo were seen grazing, closely bunched
for protection from Hies. On many
of tho ranches woro rudo eabbins and
stables. Occasionally a big cowboy
and saddlo might bo seon on a vory
small pony, which jogged along
briskly. At intervals of sevoral
miles small streams wcro orossed.
Along tho banks vogotation was
more luxuriant, and tho largest herds
wcro thoro. Occasionally a drove of
horses carno into view, and if oloso
to tho road thoy soamperod away.
Soon stray bunches of sago brush and
cactus dotted tho prairie as wo went
westward. Caotus is familiar to
most people Sago ia a scrubby,
knotty scrub which grows from a fow
inches to three or four foot high in
thick, segregated bunches, very much
like tho sago grown hore for spicing,
and has tho same grayish appear
ance
Aftor crossing into Colorado these
features became pronounced, and wo
were in tho great Amorican desert,
and no mistake. Villages of prairio
dogs dotted tho desert hero and
there. Tho earth removed from their
burrows caused a resemblance to an
exaggerated ant village. Tho frisky
little prairie dogs, liko tho avorago
citizen wanted to soo tho train pass,
and stood on their hind foot, "just
liko folks," as tho facotious mem
ber of our party remarked. This ab
original citizen of tho prairio is gon
orally of a brownish color and about
the sizo of au ordinary gray squirrel.
To my mind it resembles tho ground
squirrol more than it does the dog.
Although tho altitude waa now
high and thc land dry, short grass
still grow among tho sago and cactus
and oooasional bunches of cattle and
horses wore nibbling away at it.
Somo small huts of adobo or sun
dried bricks seemed to bo tho only
human habitation.
ONLY ONK HM) FEATURE,
Ono sad feature suggested itself to
my mind, and that was that tho poots
of that section, if there aro such, aro
doprived of that faithful old stand
by, "tho growing shades of eventide,"
for there is nothing thoro to cast tho
aforesaid shadows. Norther does tho
"bobbling brook" babble, for it is not
there.
About 4 o'clock in tho afternoon
wo got our first glimpse of the
Rockies-those mystic mountains
'midst whoso fastnesses schoolboy
imagination had wandered and exe
cuted prodigies of valor in sanguinary
encounters with tho red mar. and tho
grizzly, and from whoso depths gold
galoro had been drawn and squan
dered in building other air oastlos.
There they wero, tho famous moun
tains of which I had road and
speculated so much, peak after poak
outlined against tho western sky in
blue and silent majesty. The sun
shone quite warmly upon us, but tho
eloquent member of tho party, with
a graceful gesturo, exclaimed : "Soo
tho spotless snows clinging to tho
lin YBIXOWsTONB.
rpnssed by This, America's (Ircat
f tho West.
summits of tho ovorlasfcing hills."
Kloquonco and aoouraoy woro com
bined, for there tho snow, in glisten
ing Whiteness, lay upon tho mountain
top8.
QUKKN CITY OV TII.K ROOKIKS.
Colorado's oapital city, Donvor, is
forty years old, and was namod aftor
Gone.iii Jamos W. Donvor, the first
I ' ' 1 -1
1
IMM
Makes the food moro deli
BOYAL BAKIKO POWOI
Governor of Kansas territory; whioh
then included what is now Colorado.
He was a nativo Virginian and died
in Ohio in 1|B92.
Denver lies ns a big emerald in a
porohed plain, fourteen miles from
the foot-hills of tho Rockies. A
bounteous supply of water makes it
as a groen and oharming oasis in a
desert. The population is about
160,000, and it is safe to Bay that no.
other city of its size in tho United
States is as well built. Houses aro
of rod stone and briok OB a rulo, and
tho stroots aro well pavod. Streets
car lines, cable and electric, furnish
good transportation faoilitios. A
good impression is received at tho
very first, for tho passenger is landod
in a magnificent union dopot, of
solid granite, which covors two
blocks and cost over half a million
dollars. Soventcontfi street, ono of
tho principal thoroughfares of tho
city, loads directly to tho Brown
Polaco hotel, one milo away. Ow
ing to tho high altitudo and cloar
atmosphere, it looks only a fow hun
dred yards, and ns a person ap
proaches a givon point ho wonders
whether it recedes, for apparently
you aro no nearer when you have
covored half of tho actual distance.
Denver has several fine residonco
ttreets, and tho houses aro elegant
and substantial, being built largely
of atono. There aro practically no
ramshackle structures to be soon.
Tho peoplo soom prosperous. I was
never in a town which presented in
all rospeots BO respectable an appear
ance, for thoro were no tramps, bog
gars or vagrants in sight. While
not all appeared to be wealthy, thoy
were woll dressed and respectable in
appearance.
Tho largest pleasure ground is
City Park, containing about ?100
acres. Eilitoh's garden ?B a popu
lar resort, where a summer theatre
affords amusement. Thoro ave a
number of similar resorts, though
perhaps not quite so popular.
Denver has fino churches, two of
which cost ovor a quarter of a mil
lion each, and its high school build
ing cost ?360,000. Tho public library
contains 67,000 volumes. Tho finest
office building is tho Equitable, which
cost $2,000,000. Thoro aro four the
atres, ono of which cost a million
and a quarter.
Ton minutes' walk from tho Brown
Palaco, which, by the way, is a hand
some brown stone triangular build
ing and a strictly modern hotel, is
tho St ato capital. It is 383x318 feet,
built of gray granite and surmounted
by tito conventional dome. Tho
grounds aro beautifully sodded in
bluo grass and aro well kept. Tho
interior finish is of marbi o and onyx;
tho railings of bronze aw* burnished
brass. It is a dark building, how
ever, owing to many low, hoavy
arohea and columns. Although hav
ing already cost $3,000,000, it is yet
incomplole, and without exaggera
tion, I think that Georgia's capitol is
a hotter building than it will bo
when finished. From tho dome a
splendid view of tho city, tho sur
rounding plains and of tho Rocky
mountains can bo had. Tho mountain
view is especially fine, the lordly
snow capped peak i in Berried ranks
lifting their sumo ita to the clouds
present a picture not tobo forgotten.
OTHKU POINTS OF I NTH UK HT.
On tho ground floor is the State
museum, which is rieh in minoral
and natural history oxhibits. Stuff
ed boars, buffaloes, oaglos, otc, etc.,
togothor with historioali relics of tho
early Indian wars aro interesting.
Tho feature most attractive to mo
was the rolicH of tho oliff dwollors.
!'.kulin, bite of stone work, oto., of
these mysterious p.<:nlo opened up a
wido rango of speculation and im
agination. Who and from Whence
carno ibis lost and forgotten peoplo
who dwolt in tlvo oavorns and cliffs
of these mountains ages ngonc, bo
foro Columbus dreamed of tho West
ern world, and before tho Indian's
war-whoop rovorboratcd among tho
hills?
Tho proceedings of tho convention,
not hoing portinont to this nrtiolo,
will bo passed by. Af tor adjourning
all aflsombled at tho dopot to accept
tho invitation of President J off roy,
of tho Donvor and Rio Orando rail
road, to make an oxoursion ovor hin
lines through tho Rooky mountains
and tho Royal Georgo.
Manitou Springs was tho first stop.
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Tliia famous resort ia situated at thc
foot of Pike's Poak, iu a narrow,
deon, valley, almost ?hut in by high
mountains. A numbor of hotels aro
there, And all woro crowded, There
aro thieu famous Bprlngs, tho sul
phur, tho soda and tho Uto iron
spring, tho lattor hoing right at tho
baso of tho peak. Tho soda spring
is a wonder. It nontis out a bold,
bubbling current of ns lino soda
wator as you ovor drank, dunged
with carbon and sparkling like cham
pagne
Near tho springs aro Choyonno
canon and the Garden of tho Gods.
Tho formor is a groat gorge, grand
and boautiful, Hanked by toworing
walls of stone. The Gardon of tho Gods
is not so striking ns I had antici
pated fram printed descriptions, but
is interesting. Tho gateway is tho
most imposing fonturc, hoing com
posed of high perpendicular rooks
which riso abruptly and terminate
with sharp apicos. Tho forma
tions aro of reddish sandstono, and
many singular and striking shapes
aro soon. Ono of our party advanced
thc theory that these woro skolotons
of hills and mountains whioh had
boon washed and worn away in tho
proocss of timo.
ASCENT OF PIKE'S PEAK.
On the morning following our ar
rival, bright and carly wo mado tho
ascent of Pike's Poak ovor tho in
cline railway, starting at Iron
Spring. Tho cars ascend by moans
of cogged wheels and rails, and tho
distanco of about oight milos from
baso to summit is covored in some
thing ovor a hour. Tho average
grade is about 845 feot to tho milo,
but at ono plaoe a grado of over
1,300 feet is oncountorod. Summer
cottages and camps aro soon from
time to timo, perched high up on tho
crags and cliffs, and occasional par
ties of mountain climbers aro passed.
Wo wind about under tho shadow of
mighty walls of stone, by olear,
gushing streams and among beauti
ful wild Howers. A volume would
bo required to toll half of tho inter
esting things wo saw making tho as
cent. At Inst wo woro at tho sig
nal station on tho summit,- and ap
parently all tho world was spread out
at our foot. Tho air was cool, tho
sky^ olear, tho nun bright, snow
oapped peaka, plains Hooded with
sunlight, nature in her grandeur
and'glory. Surely the most dograded
human on carty, standing at an alti
tude al rifts ? three .miles,.?boro t??S
s?a,arid boholding this' superb speo
taolo, would bo for tho momont en
nobled and enraptured.
B. ?. H. FOR BAD BLOOD.
A Triai Hollie Will Bo Soot Froo lo the
Readers of Tho Coilrior.
Had blood causes blood and akin dis
oasos, eruptions, pimples, scrofula, oat
ing sores, ulcors, cancer, oczoma, akin
scabs, erupt ion:, and sores on oblldron,
rheumatism, catarrh, itching humors,
otc. For tlioso troubles a poBitivo spooiflo
euro is found in ll. lb Ii. (Botanic Blood
Halm), tho most wonderful blood puriflor
of tho ago. It has boon thoroughly
tooted for tho past thirty yoars and baB
always cured oven tho most deep-seated,
persistent casos, af tor doctors and pat
ent medicines bad all failed. H. B. B.
euros by driving out of tho blood tho
poisons and humors which causo all
thoso troubles, and a cure is thus mado
that is permanent. C'ontagiouB blood
poison, producing eruptions, swollen
glands, ulcorated throat and mouth, otc.,
ourod by H. H. H., tho only remedy that
can actually euro this trouble. At drug
gists, *1 per largo bottle; six largo bot
tles (full treatment) $5. Ho ovory roador
of Tun COURtKO may test H. B. B. wo
will send froo and prepaid a trial bottlo.
Writo to-day. Medical advico froo. Ad
dross Blood Hahn Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Gno of tho politicians in Kontuoky re
tires from politics and afllrms: "Ken
tucky politics moans hunger, thirst, rags,
tatters -- lumbago, virtigo, hoadacho,
death, hell and tho gravo- utter annihila
tion. '* This vordlct may bo aomowbat
overdrawn, but tho political path is not
tho ono that loads to bappinoss, rlobos
or high rospoot for ono's follows.
?fl Pl SO'S CURE FOR , ?
WI UUHt? nnene AIL riot JAI18. ni
KA nest CouKh Syrup. 'l'Mtca Good, UM HG
EQ In timo. /Sold by droguista._IM
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Unelo Sam has paid out in ponslonrv
ainco tho civil war noarly two billion and
four buhdrcd million dollars, whioh ia
enough to pay flvo bundrod dollars for
oacb of about flvo million alav?s. Free
dom bas boon a costly boon to tho conn ?
try in dollars and conts and Sta cost in.
ponsions, raco troubles and indirectly
tho disregard for tho constitution and
for Uw, is not within tho limits of mathe
matics,